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Posted 16 May 2007 - 05:00 AM

Click the + next to DVD / CD Drives, left click the drive name, right click, click remove, confirm then reboot

If the drive works with the XP CD, reboot to set up to change the boot order to CD Rom then hard drive, press F10 to save, type Y to confirm then press enter, the XP CD should be in the drive, look for press any key to load from CD

Posted 18 May 2007 - 04:58 AM

Use the autonuke option, which could take 8 hours or so to format a 200 GB Hard Drive, then when you run Windows set up, check it is creating a RAW1 partition on C, if the drive letter is different, restart the PC and it should default to C